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And swiftone was known to speak:
That said, a basic Regexp to match simple HTML is: 
/<[^>]*>/  #matches an HTML tag

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Uh, no. This incorrectly stops on 
<hello there="inside > foo">

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too early. Please use HTML::Filter or one of the other HTML::Parser-derived modules.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE:(2) looking for a regexp
by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 09, 2000 at 17:39 UTC
    Uh, no. This incorrectly stops on 
       <hello there="inside > foo">

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    That's not _simple_ HTML anymore. :) Packages are better (as I suggested), but sometimes you need a quick script for a simple task and you don't want to have to learn a package to do it.

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